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- NATION, Page 29American NotesNEW MEXICOBanning a BATmobile
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- The Batman summer superhype has caught up with Las Cruces
- police chief Ron Axtell. Warner Communications demanded that
- the city stop using the Batman logo on its ambulance-like
- BATmobile. The vehicle is used to catch drunk drivers, and its
- popularized name really stands for the breath alcohol-testing
- unit.
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- Axtell did not mind losing his BATmobile. "I'm sure it's
- not going to affect our arrests," he said. "The people we put
- in it probably don't even know there's a bat on it, they're so
- drunk."
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- But Axtell was no joker. He cut a deal and got Warner to
- donate an official Batman jacket as a prize in a city-wide
- contest to come up with a new name for the five-year-old
- program.
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- It's all more hype for a batty summer.
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